The best advances in fly fishing tackle?

[Graeme H]

OK... The Iron Age.

You win!

[Viking Lars]

What about bronze hooks from, well, the bronze age, which preceeded the iron age :-).

Lars

[Paul Arden]

Now you're just being silly Lars

[Keystone]

Hi,
Good barbless hooks and thinner nylon or have they made the eyes on hooks bigger.
Dave

[alex vulev]

if we go further down to the iron age, bronze age, etc. we should admit that the very first fly angler on earth was a monkey.

[Viking Lars]

Weeeeellll, I don't know, Paul

I'll argue that the technological step from bone to bronze, in hooks, was a bigger one than going from bronze to iron, and from iron to steel...



BTW, I still think modern flylines are the most important technological advance in fly fishing...

Lars

[Paul Arden]

I think fly fishing took its most major leap forward when we started shooting line. This is why I think the reel was the most important step!

[Graeme H]

Tenkara is popular though ...

[Paul Arden]

Yes I know. Couple that with French Nymphing and you'll have a killer technique. Still I would want a reel for big fish emergencies. A small reel with monofilament backing, run the line up through the blank - that would be a killer method.

But you're always going to be limited to casting twice the length of the rod or thereabouts.

[Viking Lars]

Unless you have that greatest of advances - a modern flyline - than you can cast 125 feet :-).

HAH :-)

Lars